Tammie Gilchrist Photography

http://tammiegilchristphotography.com | New website & blog!

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:13:00 +0000

Come on over to my new website & blog!

www.tammiegilchristphotography.com

Have a great day!

Spread the Love Tour...and the winner is...ME!

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:31:00 +0000

First off I want to say how wonderful it has been networking and reaching out to others. I had been focusing all my attention on something so not photography-related for such a long time, and since finding and discovering what photography has to offer me it's been like a dream. And to make things even better is not only connecting with other photographers through websites, blogs, facebook and twitter but to actually have a chance to meet up with them and have a more personal relationship than just through the web that is so awesome.

And speaking of awesome, enter Kia Gregory. I first saw her post on the [b]school. One of the best sites for photographers out there - mainly catering to wedding photographers but if you have questions or need advice on your photography buisness it's the place to be. Kia had great advice and I realized she was local - and when I say 'local' I mean not in Tennesse or Texas - she lives in Ca.

I have read time and time again about fabulous workshops and gatherings I would just love to attend, but unfortunately being a newbie establishing her business the $ isn't there yet so those workshops will just have to wait...until my friend Kia came up with her fabulous give away, a ticket to the Spread the Love workshop in SF.

The Spread the Love Tour is more than just a photography workshop, as the two founders of the tour (Justine and Mary Marantz) explain, it's more of a life-building workshop.
"Spread the Love is not a photography specific workshop. It's a LIFE workshop. So anyone in a service based industry or who works for themselves could attend!! The whole idea is to show you how to build a business that works for you (rather than always the other way around) so you can get back to having a life again. Seriously, when was the last time you felt like you had a life outside of your business? So we focus a lot on building up your business, but we'll also dig into things like building your financial house, taking care of yourself and your relationships with the people you love, and giving back to the bigger picture. It's the feel good movie of the year!!"

And with Kia's giveaway in front of me, I did what any sane person would do - I responded to her post.

AND I WON!

I'm just a little excited and can not wait till February 8th rolls around and I can meet Kia (in person), eat some good food in the city, attend what I'm sure is going to be a life-changing workshop and have an all round fabulous day.

Because it's not specifically a 'photography' workshop, I may not have any photos from there, but I will however bring the camera with me into the city - I can not wait to post the pics I take there. I love San Francisco!

Children's portraits - on location Fort Bragg, CA

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:25:00 +0000

The sun wasn't out, it was rainy and overcast outside...I pulled out my diffuser and went to work anyway!

Children's portraits - on location Fort Bragg, CA

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:47:00 +0000

I'm working out some post-processing glitches - but I have managed to get a few through and able to show them off. I'm not using photoshop anymore, just an old standby online editor tools and I don't care for them. I will get photoshop back - and SOON! But until then I am happy with these results. Enjoy!

Yanez girls - sneak peak - family portrait on location

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:24:00 +0000

Here it is. A beautiful shot straight out of the camera (SOOC) - it's just lovely. I will post more in a few days. Enjoy!

I am currently taking appointments for family, children and senior portraits.

I offer a very competitive session fee and have lots of options as far as packages and/or a la cart pricing.

~Tammie

Week 2: Photo Challenge - “Best Face Photo”

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:20:00 +0000

This week over at my favorite blogsite i heart faces they are having their weekly photo challenge.

This week’s photo challenge theme is: "Best Face Photo"-

This is such a great site and lots of fantastic entries this week.

Here is my contribution to the challenge:

For more entries of Best Faces head back over to i heart faces.

Gracie Barra Rohnert Park Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Northern California

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:35:00 +0000

For the past year my husband has attended Gracie Barra Rohnert Park Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu facility. Because we live about 2 1/2 hours north of the facility, he can usually only get in about once a week (although during his vacation he was getting in about twice). It's a great facility and he loves it there (despite the long commute!) and has been wanting me to get in and take a few shots.

If you're interested in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu click here for more information.

Railroad Square - Santa Rosa, Ca

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:33:00 +0000

We usually go over to Santa Rosa/Ronart Park on Saturdays (click here to see why). When I flipped through the most recent issue of The Knot they did a focus article on Sonoma County beautiful spots for outdoor portraits. Albeit meant for engagement photos - I took advantage of the beautiful setting and did a photoshoot while in town. Here are a few of the photographs from that shoot.

Fix it Friday from I ♥ Faces - #40

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:17:00 +0000

Today is Fix-it Friday over at my most favorite blogsites I ♥ Faces. The fix-it pic is of a Birthday boy blowing out his candles. Not a whole lot of fixin' needed to be done to this photo. I did try straightening it out a bit but then lost too much of the background. I threw this pic into the online photo editing site picnik and did a little cropping, sharpening, changed the tone a bit and did a little vignetting. I enjoy using picnik for quicky little projects like this - Enjoy!

For more Fix-it Friday fixes on this cute little boy, head back over to I ♥ Faces.

Going down to the harbor

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:48:00 +0000

I have lived in this town my whole life (minus two years while my husband was stationed back East from 98 to 2000) and have NEVER taken a single photograph of the harbor. We are, in fact, living right next to the ocean. Since the photography bug bit me I am 'rediscovering' my town - and am lovin' every minute of it!

Gotta get two in of my daughter...

whether she liked it...

or not.

I ♥ Faces "Theme" week 1

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:51:00 +0000

Over at one of my most favorite blogs, I ♥ Faces - it's theme week (in honor of their 1st Birthday!). I've been thinking about ways to incorporate their logo and what better way to celebrate their Birthday than with a gigantic pancake!Oh, and a picture of my dog, Jack.

Lots and lots of other wonderful photographers and their blogs

are all over here...

Go check them out!

for the legal department... “I am submitting this photo into the I Heart Faces logo photo contest. By entering, I am granting I Heart Faces LLC permission to consider my photo for use in the marketing and promotion of their website.”

Because we live on an island...

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:36:00 +0000

Every once in a while I like to get out of town, BY MYSELF. This is not too much to ask and I don't do it to inconvenience anyone. I just need to Breath. Think. Be. And now, since my eyesight has been taken over by what I can only describe as a lens from a camera, I had to stop several times and snap a few shots on the way out and the way back home.

A couple more from the gardens

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:11:00 +0000

I have pulled a few more out from our trip to the local Botanical Gardens. It's just too bad this time of year it's so gray and blah right now because I'm craving bright, vibrant colors BIG TIME! I'm working on my sun flare and back lit pictures, but being the novice that I am, it's definitely a work in progress...

A little late...Fix it Friday from I ♥ Faces

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:47:00 +0000

I'm having fun learning Photoshop...and over at one of my most favorite blogs called I ♥ Faces they have what they called Fix it Friday. I grabbed a photo from what I thought was a current Fix it Friday (it was from October! oh well) and did some of my own work to it, plus I'm a sucker for tulle...

I know, not much different...

but that's the fun part of Fix it Fridays...

most of the time the pictures are fine before you even start playing around!

Going to the Garden...

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:27:00 +0000

some photos taken at the pool and at the gardens...

Pictures this afternoon at our local

Botanical Gardens...

And then there are my three favorites of the day...

Land or Sea?

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:18:00 +0000

I'm feeling it...the feeling you get at the end of the year when you are DONE. You know that feeling? The Christmas decorations are everywhere, toys are everywhere, people are EVERYWHERE...

Today I NEEDED to get out and take some pictures. I called my mom up and after a quick discussion of where we'd shoot, we headed out to the beach. Two different beaches and not lot going on...It was beautiful.

I ♥ Faces "Hilarious Outtakes"

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:21:00 +0000

This week at I ♥ Faces is "Hilarious Outtakes" week. Here are my entries...

Christmas pictures gone wild...

Silly faces...

My new favorite blog and lots more Hilarious Outtakes at...

Go check it out!

HDR

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:16:00 +0000

We ate dinner yesterday at our good friends house. My friend Kim and her husband David are good people and we enjoy their company just as much as their yummy food! David has recently started doing more photography and showed me a program that he has learned to use. The idea of the program (as simple as I can explain it) is taking several different exposures of the same picture and then combining them using a free down loadable program from this website called http://hdrsoft.com.

Without actually taken any photos just for this specifically, I did manage to find a nice group of under & over exposed shots of Coronas (playing around with my AV setting on the camera) and then trying to get a decent shot of the flowers my mother in law sent my family for Christmas.

Three photos of the roses combined

Corona - four photos combined

I wish I could be more specific about the settings but I honestly didn't pay much attention when I was taking them, just messing around with the settings on my camera. I'm slowly figuring things out, and plan on purposely taking pictures for this program...then I will make a point to remember what settings I used.

Merry Christmas

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:34:00 +0000

cupcakes and pretty boxes

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:35:00 +0000

Every Christmas we make up a plate of goodies for the people my husband works with, along with the kid's teachers. This year we're cutting back on the sugar and calories (I know, that's just not nice!) and upping the cuteness with a single cupcake and pretty little box, bow and tag.

Tonight I'm posting a picture of the cupcake, tomorrow I'll post the whole package.

Cupcake anyone?

Here we come a carolin'

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:40:00 +0000

Oh the joy of being a 2nd grader...oy' the joy of being a 2nd grader's mom. Day three of the holiday fun. Today the kids caroled our local hospital as well as the convalescent hospital. They were just too darn cute with those elves hats...

ah...the dreaded bus

I heart faces "Pets Only"

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:40:00 +0000

Say hi to Rosie...I was out at my friend's farm getting ready to shoot some family pictures a couple weeks ago.

Rosie just had to come over to me and say hi.

Not your typical "pet" she definitely is loved like one. And she knows it!

Tea with the Principal

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:46:00 +0000

Here at our Elementary school the kids worship their principal. Today was my youngest daughter's day to celebrate with the principal - 100% homework for the first half of the school year. Not only did my daughter have 100% homework turn in, her whole class had 100%. It's just so exciting to see kids who want to do well. Now if this can just stick through teen years!

Mary K. Our most wonderfully awesome principal!

All the kids used real tea cups & saucers.

Four best friends waiting patiently...

And in the end it was all worth those nights of "Mom, I forgot my math is due tomorrow!" and "Mom, I know it's bedtime but I still need to read for 20 minutes". Because all that matters is those cute little faces smiling ear to ear when I went around and asked...

1 lump or 2?

While waiting for the family to arrive

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:23:00 +0000

Me and my girlies got to the farm a little early, so I did manage to sneak in a few pictures of them while waiting...

What a beautiful sky...at least in this picture.

A minute later and the clouds rolled in and it was cold and overcast AGAIN!

Just being Emma

We did have a great time at the farm. It was really cold and I did have a lot of extra help from Savannah but I'd have to say, not too bad for the first time shooting someone else besides my own family. Next time I will probably split it up a bit, do a little more one on one time with each girl away from everyone else (less distractions that way) - otherwise everything else worked great. There is an inverse equation I learned yesterday from this photo shoot:

Increase the number of people in a picture/

decrease the likelihood of everyone smiling at the same time

That's okay though...we got some fantastic shots and I know Jenn and Tim are happy with the results, and in the end...that's all that matters!

And for me, well I got some fantastic shots too...

Photo shoot at the farm

noreply@blogger.com (Tammie) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:20:00 +0000

It started out cold and ended cold today...but I think I managed to get a nice handful of pictures for my good friends Tim, Jenn and all their kids! Here are a few from today...

Tim and Jenn...you can see the love in their faces,

even in freezing cold weather!

A picture of the whole family...

I think this might be a Christmas card picture for sure!

A fun one of just the three little girls

The link to the pictures is here:
http://s740.photobucket.com/albums/xx48/TammieGilchrist/Bosma%20Family%20Fall%2009/